‘Boy Meets World’ star shares diagnosis to spread awareness
Danielle Fishel, best known for playing Topanga Lawrence in the 1990s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” revealed her diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer.
DCIS, which affects more than 55,000 women per year in the United States, is curable. Fishel, who said her cancer was at Stage 0, urged other women to get their mammograms, or breast cancer screenings, to catch any issues early.
According to the American Cancer Society, “nearly all women” with DCIS can be cured with appropriate treatment and medical care.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, DCIS accounts for up to a quarter of all new cancer diagnoses each year. Modern medical imaging technology has made it possible to detect DCIS, whereas it would typically go undetected before and could in some cases turn into invasive and deadly forms of breast cancer. But routine mammograms can and do pick up tens of thousands of new cases per year.
Caption from an article by Annabelle Timsit.
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